The Management of Health and Safety at Work and Fire Precautions (Workplace) (Amendment) Regulations 2003

• Citation: S.I. 2003/2457
• Sections: 13

Section 1 Citation and commencement

These Regulations may be cited as the Management of Health and Safety at Work and Fire Precautions (Workplace) (Amendment) Regulations 2003 and shall come into force on 27th October 2003.

Section 2 Amendments to Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999

The Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 shall be amended in accordance with regulations 3 to 6 of these Regulations and any reference in those provisions to any specified provision shall, unless the context requires otherwise, be taken to be a reference to the provision so specified of the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999.

Section 3 Amendments to Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999

For regulation 2 there shall be substituted the following regulation—

Disapplication of these Regulations

(2)

(1) These Regulations shall not apply to or in relation to the master or crew of a ship, or to the employer of such persons, in respect of the normal ship-board activities of a ship’s crew which are carried out solely by the crew under the direction of the master.

(2) Regulations 3(4), (5), 10(2) and 19 shall not apply to occasional work or short-term work involving work regarded as not being harmful, damaging or dangerous to young people in a family undertaking.

(3) In this regulation—

“normal ship-board activities” include—

the construction, reconstruction or conversion of a ship outside, but not inside, Great Britain; and

the repair of a ship save repair when carried out in dry dock;

“ship” includes every description of vessel used in navigation, other than a ship belonging to Her Majesty which forms part of Her Majesty’s Navy.

Section 4 Amendments to Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999

In regulation 3(3) the words “and where” to the end shall follow and not appear in subparagraph (b).

Section 5 Amendments to Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999

Regulation 19(4) shall be omitted.

Section 6 Amendments to Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999

For regulation 22 there shall be substituted the following regulation—

Restriction of civil liability for breach of statutory duty

(22) Breach of a duty imposed on an employer by these Regulations shall not confer a right of action in any civil proceedings insofar as that duty applies for the protection of persons not in his employment.

Section 7 Amendments to Fire Precautions (Workplace) Regulations 1997

The Fire Precautions (Workplace) Regulations 1997 shall be amended in accordance with regulations 8 to 13 of these Regulations and any reference in those provisions to any specified provision shall, unless the context requires otherwise, be taken to be a reference to the provision so specified of the Fire Precautions (Workplace) Regulations 1997.

Section 8 Amendments to Fire Precautions (Workplace) Regulations 1997

In regulation 9(1) there shall be omitted the words “provisions of health and safety regulations or”.

Section 9 Amendments to Fire Precautions (Workplace) Regulations 1997

In regulation 9(2)(a)(ii), for the words “premises to which” there shall be substituted the words “premises of a description specified in Part I of Schedule 1 to” and the word “apply” shall be omitted.

Section 10 Amendments to Fire Precautions (Workplace) Regulations 1997

For paragraph (ii) of regulation 9(2)(b) there shall be substituted the following paragraph—

(ii) have effect in relation to a workplace in Great Britain other than—

(a) an excepted workplace, or

(b) any workplace referred to in paragraphs (i) and (ii) of paragraph (2)(a), other than a building on the surface at a mine,

Section 11 Amendments to Fire Precautions (Workplace) Regulations 1997

After regulation 9(2) there shall be inserted the following paragraph—

(2A) Notwithstanding that the provisions of Part II of these Regulations are not provisions forming part of the relevant statutory provisions, the provisions of Part II shall, in so far as they apply to any workplace referred to in paragraphs (i) and (ii) of paragraph (2)(a) other than a building on the surface at a mine, be deemed to be health and safety regulations for the purposes of sections 16 to 24, 26, 28, 33 to 40, 42, 46 and 47 of the 1974 Act.

Section 12 Amendments to Fire Precautions (Workplace) Regulations 1997

At the end of regulation 9 there shall be inserted the following regulation—

Civil liability for breach of statutory duty

(9A)

(1) Subject to paragraph (2), and notwithstanding section 86 of the Fires Prevention (Metropolis) Act 1774 , breach of a duty imposed on an employer by the workplace fire precautions legislation shall, so far as it causes damage, confer a right of action in civil proceedings.

(2) Breach of a duty imposed on an employer by the workplace fire precautions legislation shall not confer a right of action in civil proceedings insofar as that duty applies for the protection of persons not in his employment

Section 13 Amendments to Fire Precautions (Workplace) Regulations 1997

In regulation 17—

(a) in paragraph (2), the words “27A (civil and other liability)” shall be omitted;

(b) at the end of paragraph (5) there shall be inserted the following paragraph—

(6) Insofar as Part II of these Regulations contains any provision which is made under the 1971 Act, section 27A(a) of the 1971 Act shall not apply in respect of any contravention of such provision.